“The gun bill was worked on probably ten times longer than the budget will be,” Cuomo, a Democrat, said during a press conference. He said there are always “inconsistencies” that emerge in a “complicated” piece of legislation “once it’s out and once it’s second-guessed. With total hindsight, you will find grammatical errors and you will find confusing things.”

This “inconsistency,” Cuomo said, was that the law would prohibit the sale of any magazine capable of holding more than seven rounds but allow people to load 10 rounds into a magazine while at a designated shooting range. As Cuomo explained: “If you can put 10 bullets in a gun, you need a magazine that can hold 10 bullets.”

Gun rights advocates have called the gun law, dubbed the SAFE Act, a de-facto ban on many pistols designed to accept eight-round magazines. The change would seem to alleviate that concern.

The SAFE Act broadened the definition of banned assault weapons, increased penalties for illegal gun possession, reduced public access to gun permit information, and required mental health professionals to report concerns about a gun-owning patient who posed a risk of harming himself or others.

The bill was unveiled on Jan. 14, and passed quickly through a “message of necessity” that waived the legally required three-day waiting period. The Senate, led by a Republican-dominated coalition, passed the measure by a 43-18 vote less than two hours after the bill’s text became public. The Democrat-dominated Assembly passed the bill the next day, and Cuomo signed it.